Tehran, Jan 2, IRNA – The 12th International Exhibition of Goods, Services, Store Equipment and Chain Stores (Iran Shop 2019) started in the Iran International Exhibition on Wednesday.

Iran Shop 2019 will host 70 Iranian and foreign companies from January 2-5.

The goals of the exhibition are supporting Iranian goods, promoting the goods and services, developing export, introducing the goods that are capable of competing with foreign ones, easy shopping, triggering competition, enhancing the culture of shopping from chain stores to reduce air pollution and fuel consumption, preventing wasting time, organized monitoring of health goods, valuing and monitoring prices.

In the inauguration ceremony of the event, the head of Trade Promotion Organization of Iran Mohammad Reza Modoudi referred to the $1,200bn import market of the region and added in order to use the potential, Iran needs founding chain stores in other countries.

Tehran, Sept 15, IRNA – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his message on International Day of Democracy, 15 September 2019, urged all governments to respect the right to active, substantive and meaningful participation.

Tehran, Sept 15, IRNA – Iran's President Hassan Rouhani sent a message to his Nicaraguan counterpart to José Daniel Ortega Saavedra to congratulate his country's Independence Day to the Nicaraguan people and government.

Mashhad, Sept 15, IRNA – Minister of Interior Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said that John Bolton’s sacking by US President Donald Trump showed that the hardliners in the US failed to push forward their policies against Iran.

New Delhi, Sept 14, IRNA - India will hold high level dialogue with Iran on Sunday in Tehran as the two countries are expected to discuss very important issues such as Iran crude sales to India, the status of the nuclear deal and other points that are crucial in their bilateral relations.